It was just a couple of days ago that I wrote about platforms like silverlight shortening the time for cross-platform malware to appear. It has surfaced in the Flsah player already...


>Agreed: the safety of the VM will be the business-deployment issue. The Flash VM sandbox has some security difficulties, and in general VM safety is a thorney issue.
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>>I agree. If silverlight becomes essentially a windows interface wrapped in a browser based VM (which it seems to me that it is), it could very well give web applications much the polish and functionality windows applications have a monopoly on at this time, while making web application development orders of magnitude faster and easier.
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>>*IF* it works and is carried forward.